Flying with Carol Vorderman: why she is 'bigging up the girls' in aviation history

Carol Vorderman takes The Telegraph up in her plane to explain her love of
flying, her plans to follow in Amelia Earhart's footsteps flying solo around
the world and why girls need to know of the unsung inspirational British
female pilots

Having gained her private pilot’s licence last December, which qualifies her to fly with passengers, she now plans to circumnavigate the globe in a year’s time, following in the footsteps of Amelia Earhart, who became the first women to fly across the Atlantic and the first person to fly solo across both the Atlantic and Pacific before disappearing on a flight in mysterious circumstances in 1937.

But while Amelia Earhart is a household name, the exploits of pioneering female British pilots, such as Milred Bruce and Richarda Morrow-Tait, who was the first woman pilot to fly around the world are much less well known, she said.

"Those are two women, that I think particularly young girls should get to know about. [I wish] I had known about them when I was young. They are inspirational women," she said.